VirtualFiles File Management

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What is the recommended way to have file and directory management with VirtualFiles using ASPNET Core?

The IVirtualFiles supports quite a few of the actions needed but we need more actions e.g. rename directory or file, copy file and directory etc

We could use a combination of the existing functions, e.g. rename file is a get existing -> write new copy -> delete existing but seems a bit inefficient or should we be using the ASPNET FileServer instead?

Thanks

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Don’t use VirtualFiles for anything it doesn’t support. If you need to manage the File System I’d be using the .NET File/Directory APIs directly, e.g. Directory.Move(), File.Move(), etc. I don’t know what ASP .NET File Server is.

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Thanks for the quick response.

I was referring to the app builder IApplicationBuilder UseFileServer configuration and providers as an alternative to using VirtualFiles.

I’ll use the File / Directory.Move etc in combination with VirtualFiles.

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